Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner's Sons. Perkins was unenthusiastic on both occasions, and Fitzgerald died in 1940 without having put his best essays between hard covers. Fortunately Fitzgerald left behind a table of contents, and with this list as a guide it has been possible to publish here the collection that he envisioned, under the title My Lost City. This volume also includes several of Fitzgerald's autobiographical writings. My Lost City, like the other volumes in the Cambridge Edition, provides accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts and typescripts. Words and passages cut by magazine editors have been restored to several of the essays. A textual apparatus has been included, along with full explanatory notes identifying people, places, books, historical events, and other details. |
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... writer . for our Enieser who made a single . and irreproachable choice there have been a dozen like Heury Fances who have ... write " " siquepicantly about America . dusuncere because it is not a compulsion formed in theunselores - it is ...
... writer . for our Enieser who made a single . and irreproachable choice there have been a dozen like Heury Fances who have ... write " " siquepicantly about America . dusuncere because it is not a compulsion formed in theunselores - it is ...
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... write an entirely different kind of book , a rem- iniscence of the Jazz Age . Fitzgerald's desire to publish a collection of his personal essays was never realized . He shelved the idea and did not mention it again in his correspondence ...
... write an entirely different kind of book , a rem- iniscence of the Jazz Age . Fitzgerald's desire to publish a collection of his personal essays was never realized . He shelved the idea and did not mention it again in his correspondence ...
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... writing being hers — but I am not sure I would be justified in using it . Also I have some of my very first stories written at twelve and thirteen , some of which are funny enough to be reprinted.3 Fitzgerald's ideas about the ...
... writing being hers — but I am not sure I would be justified in using it . Also I have some of my very first stories written at twelve and thirteen , some of which are funny enough to be reprinted.3 Fitzgerald's ideas about the ...
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... writing in the autobiographical mode . In February , March , and April 1936 he published a trio of self - revelatory ... write " a 4 Dear Scott / Dear Max , p . 227. Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was published in 1933 by ...
... writing in the autobiographical mode . In February , March , and April 1936 he published a trio of self - revelatory ... write " a 4 Dear Scott / Dear Max , p . 227. Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was published in 1933 by ...
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... write non - fiction wonderfully well , " he said . " Your observations are brilliant and acute , and your presentations of real characters most admirable " ( Dear Scott / Dear Max , 228 ) . Fitzgerald was probably flattered , but he ...
... write non - fiction wonderfully well , " he said . " Your observations are brilliant and acute , and your presentations of real characters most admirable " ( Dear Scott / Dear Max , 228 ) . Fitzgerald was probably flattered , but he ...
Contents
Whos Who and Why 1920 | 1 |
Princeton 1927 | 4 |
What I Think and Feel at 25 1924 | 14 |
How to Live on 36000 a Year 1924 | 25 |
How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year 1924 | 38 |
Imagination and a Few Mothers 1923 | 56 |
Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own 1924 | 64 |
How to Waste Material 1926 | 75 |
Pasting It Together 1936 | 143 |
Handle with Care 1936 | 148 |
Auction Model 1934 1934 | 155 |
Sleeping and Waking 1934 | 161 |
Authors House 1936 | 166 |
Afternoon of an Author 1936 | 173 |
An Authors Mother 1936 | 179 |
Early Success 1937 | 183 |
One Hundred False Starts 1933 | 80 |
Ring 1933 | 89 |
A Short Autobiography 1929 | 95 |
Girls Believe in Girls 1930 | 98 |
My Lost City 19351940 | 104 |
Show Mr and Mrs F to Number 1934 | 114 |
Echoes of the Jazz Age 1931 | 128 |
The CrackUp 1936 | 137 |
My Generation 1939 | 190 |
Record of variants | 197 |
Explanatory notes | 219 |
Illustrations | 293 |
Show Mr and Mrs F to Number | 299 |
Publication and earnings | 337 |
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